Teresa K. Miller is the National Poetry Series–winning author of Borderline Fortune (Penguin), featured on NPR’s Bookworm. Her other titles include sped (Sidebrow), Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky), and Food First: Selected Writings from 40 Years of Movement Building (Food First Books). Her poems and essays have appeared in Lit Hub, ZYZZYVA, DIAGRAM, AlterNet, and elsewhere. A graduate of Barnard College and the Mills College MFA program, she lives in Seattle and works as a ghostwriter and editor.
Will Bloom in Our Lacuna I’m sorry I can’t give you and oursa child, sorry the barrenness rests in my chest and notmy womb, sorry I’ve turned the earthbeneath our tree blank like a black walnut, that everyoneyou loved who…